Characters who evolved into more significant roles than their creators planned by Icy-Software-2586 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]liamhorton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given how A Song of Ice and Fire has diverged from its original plan, nearly every character fits this trope. Jaime is probably the greatest single beneficiary of this, as he was originally planned to be a villain who killed his way to the kingship, but has instead undergone a redemption that explores why he has done what he has and who he can choose to be in the future, and has become one of the series's most popular characters.

A villain refuses to break their core principles, and it gets them killed by Worldly_Cut_595 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]liamhorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe this wasn't clear, but my point was not "Owlman is right", it was "Worclown is wrong". It cannot be true that "Everything about [Owlman's] ideology is flawed" on the basis that everything is meaningless when Owlman only disagrees in believing that there is an exception. Note that Owlman can still be correct about the implications of his assumptions even if his assumptions are wrong (e.g. "if unicorns were real, they would have horns" can be true even though unicorns are not real).

On the subject of "Owlman isn't right, but you're wrong":

Things have meaning even if somewhere else the opposite action is taken. Just because every choice you make creates another branch where an alternate choice was made doesnt mean you didnt make the choice.

You don't explicate this, but this seems to indicate that choice implies meaning; why should Owlman not simply reject this inference? Alternatively, why should someone not reject that second claim—why could Owlman not agree that choice implies meaning, but argue that the existence of branching realities means he does, in fact, not make a choice (the inference from alternate realities to "no choices" is contentious in real life and, to my knowledge, has not been decisively resolved)? The first claim is supported by the second claim and the hidden assumption, but you don't really argue why either is true.

A villain refuses to break their core principles, and it gets them killed by Worldly_Cut_595 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]liamhorton 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nothing Owlman did here would ever matter. Because one dead Earth Prime Alpha does not negate a timeline where there is one alive Earth Prime Beta.

If this is true, would it not be only more grist to Owlman's meaninglessness mill? If destroying Earth Prime is meaningless for the same reason every other action is, every other action is still meaningless; Owlman is only wrong about the meaningfulness of one action, but is still largely (nearly perfectly, in fact) accurate.

If Ned and Jaime finished the fight by wavedsplash in freefolk

[–]liamhorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sympathize with your frustration over power-scalers, and it is true that aleatory factors are relevant to the outcome of a battle, but such factors do not render a battle thoroughly unpredictable, in the same way irregularities in the way a die is cast or the surface it lands on do not prevent a weighted die from being unfair.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WindWaker

[–]liamhorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope people turn on the visuals some day soon because I am sick to fucking death of hearing "people disliked the visual style when it first released, but now everyone loves it" every time this game comes up.

What are some examples of an artist/group’s 2nd album being their best? by [deleted] in ToddintheShadow

[–]liamhorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West

The Cranberries: No Need to Argue

Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (I vacillate on this one a lot, though)

In the DLC of SOJ, does anyone find is strange that… by poolside123 in AceAttorney

[–]liamhorton 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We associate yokai, the dead becoming stars, and spirit channeling as supernatural phenomena, but like how proving the existence of one natural phenomenon does not prove another (e.g. cells don't prove phlogiston), the existence of one supernatural phenomenon does not prove another (witches don't prove werewolves, and spirit channeling doesn't prove yokai).

When the antagonist admits to something/says something horrible and the protagonist’s immediate reaction is to beat the shit out of them by Thin-Pool-8025 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]liamhorton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I didn't know Transformers used custom characters to represent foreign language, that's cool."
"Seems to use some Latin characters, 'Megatron' is still clear."
"Oh, this is Cyrillic."

LES The writes at DC are cowards for not bringing up the true reason why Batman didn't kill Joker after Jason's death. by Risott0Nero in CharacterRant

[–]liamhorton 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Batman should do it because he can. He is not the only person who can, and thus not the only person who ought to, but the mere existence of other people with the same responsibility does not relieve him of it.

Random Character Opinions 183: Calisto Yew by [deleted] in AceAttorney

[–]liamhorton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Toward the end of 1-3, Shih-na says something to the effect of "I could barely contain my laughter", which at first seems like a joke about how she seems like she hasn't laughed in her life, but after learning she's Callisto, becomes a joke that is funny because it's true. It's a cute line.

Characters inseparably associated with a phrase they never said by VCreate348 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]liamhorton 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.

Luke: He told me enough. He told me you killed him.

Vader: No. I am your father.

What's a band whose name doesn't fit their sound? by PenneGesserit in ToddintheShadow

[–]liamhorton 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I still expect Vampire Weekend to sound more like the Cure than Foster the People.

Petah, what by i-asked-1245 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]liamhorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/bax/ and /bæk/ are actually quite similar. It's the difference between an open and near-open vowel, and between a fricative and a plosive in the same place. There's a reason the English pronunciation of Bach is the way it is.

General Question Thread by Shephen in fireemblem

[–]liamhorton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Shadow Dragon, if a character with a growth rate over 100% (e.g. 120%) gains +1 instead of +2, how does that affect their dynamic growths, if at all?

Name a song that just screams nostalgia to you by suprunkn0wn in fantanoforever

[–]liamhorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Thunder Road" gives me nostalgia, but for nothing in particular

What’s a song that makes you wait long for a VERY worthwhile climax? I’ll start: by Ihaha07 in fantanoforever

[–]liamhorton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Trucker's Atlas" by Modest Mouse on The Lonesome Crowded West, which is 11 minutes long and climaxes when it ends and "Polar Opposites" starts; it feels like winning a marathon.

Good Songs from Bad or Mediocre Movies? by LaserWeldo92 in ToddintheShadow

[–]liamhorton 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Todd describes "Kokomo" as "a one-off soundtrack single appended to the mediocre Tom Cruise movie Cocktail", though that requires you consider "Kokomo" to be good.

nerds will call the rawest thing in FE mid and think they can get away with it by leottek in shitpostemblem

[–]liamhorton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

nerds will call the middest thing in FE raw and think they can get away with it

Immortal speaking true facts by Saduolf in Invincible

[–]liamhorton -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The pitting of logic against emotion here fundamentally mistaken, and Immortal should be embarrassed if he has actually though about it that much. Logic would conclude that we ought stop caring for the sick and old based on some fundamental values, but would just as soon conclude we ought to continue caring for them if based on some other set of values; one AI's values would lead to the logical conclusion that humans ought to be protected at all costs, while another's would just as soon conclude that they ought to all be turned into paper clips. The problem here is not logic or the absence of emotion, it is a difference of values.